HMC Farms Blog

My Fruit My Body

chelseam — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 23:23:18 +0000

A recent study shows some amazingly powerful benefits from peaches and plums. Evidence showed that select peach and plum extracts actually killed aggressive breast cancer cells — without damaging surrounding healthy cells.

Learn more about this study, and hear stories from women who support this cause at www.myfruitmybody.com .

HMC Farms Foodservice Grapes on AndNowUKnow.com

chelseam — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:38:39 +0000

Mark Givens, our Director of Foodservice Sales was interviewed at the latest PMA Foodservice conference in Monterey. Below is a link to the video where he explains HMC Farms and all of our different Foodservice pack styles. Enjoy!

http://andnowuknow.com/st/743

HMC Farms Update 9/7/2010 – SPECIALTY ITEMS

chelseam — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 16:37:44 +0000

Holiday Red Plums

This proprietary red plum is crisp, juicy & flavorful. The brix on this plum averages between 17-20. Stickered with a Holiday PLU these plums can be purchased in a VF or 2LTP box.

Start Date: 9/5/10

Niabell Black Grapes

These bluish black grapes are seeded and very sweet. Each one you eat tastes like a sip from a glass of Concord grape juice. They are packed in a 12# strawberry box and 11# styro.

Start Date: 9/2/2010

Summer Fling Yellow Peaches

This proprietary yellow peach is everything a peach should be. It is juicy, sweet, and the perfect way to finish off the stone fruit season.

Start Date: 9/2/2010

HMC Farms Update 8/18/2010

chelseam — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 23:50:45 +0000

TREE FRUIT

We are two thirds of the way through our season, with a lot of fruit left to pick. The two week delay at the start of the season has not yet caught up with us, which means many commodities will be able to stretch out a week or two longer depending on the weather. Our Holiday red plum will be available only from HMC Farms the beginning of September.

TABLE GRAPES

Bunchkins® Champagne grapes and Crimsons are in full production, with Thompsons starting this week. Niabell Concord grapes will start in a few short days. Autumn Royals should start in late August with Red Globes following close behind.

**COMING SOON HMC HOLIDAY PROPRIETARY RED PLUMS**

HMC Farms Update 8/2/2010

chelseam — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:41:27 +0000

Full line of Products are currently available from HMC Farms.

TREE FRUIT

Peaches -
Zee Lady and Summer Flame 29

Nectarines -
Summer Bright and Summer Fire

White Peaches -
Snow Princess and Snow King

White Nectarines -
Fire Pearl and Red Pearl

Red Plums -
Fortune, Yummy Giant and Red Dawn

Black Plums -
Owen T and Friar

Specialty Plums -
King Midas

TABLE GRAPES

Red Grapes -
Flames – now available
Red King – estimated start date 8/9
Crimson – estimated start date 8/25
Sweet Scarlet – estimated start date 8/27
Scarlet Royal – estimated start date 8/29
Vintage – estimated start date 9/15

Black Grapes -
Summer Royal – now available
Autumn Royal –estimated start date 8/20

Green Grapes -
Thompsons – estimated start date 8/17

Specialty Grapes -
Champagne Grapes – now available
Niabells – estimated start date 8/23

Red and Black clamshells available

Green and Tri Color clamshells coming soon

HMC Farms Update 6/23/2010

chelseam — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 18:51:14 +0000

We are now into the summer volumes and varieties. Sizes are down a bit from last year with peaches peaking on average at 48/50 and nectarines at 56’s.

Varieties currently available for tree fruit are:

Peaches – Earlirich, Country Sweet and Rich Lady

Nectarines – Diamond Bright and Spring Bright

White Peaches – Ivory Princess, Snow Jewel and Ice Princess

White Nectarines – Kay Pearl, Arctic Sweet and Spring Pearl

Black Plums – Black Splendor

Red Plums – Yummy Beaut and Yummy Rosa

We have started our first picks of the Bunchkins Champagne Grapes. These super sweet, ‘champagne’ grapes will be available from HMC Farms from June 21^st until early September.

HMC Farms Young Grape Vine

chelseam — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:41:14 +0000

Watch a newly planted grape vine grow and develop through the month of May.

HMC Farms Crimson Baby Nectarine

chelseam — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:18:44 +0000

Watch one of our nectarines grow from a bud to a ripe piece of fruit.

HMC Farms Update 6/2/2010

chelseam — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:48:51 +0000

Summer is here.

Below is the forecast for this month.

Click here for the Kingsburg, CA forecast for June.

We are now into great tasting, peak season varieties here at HMC Farms.

Current and upcoming varieties:
Peach - Zee Diamond, Spring Flame 22 and Crimson Lady
Nectarines - Red Roy and Rose Bright
White Peach - Spring Snow and Ivory Dutchess
White Nectarine - Early Pearl and Arctic Star
Black Plum - Flavorosa
Red Plum - Rubi Rosa

Table Grape Update
Upcoming table grape varieties have good form, shape and size.
Start looking forward to Champagne Grapes which should be
available out of Arizona starting June 18th.

HMC Farms Update 5/25/2010

chelseam — Tue, 25 May 2010 19:10:15 +0000

On Saturday and Sunday the Fresno and Bakersfield greater areas saw record low HIGH TEMPERATURES. They were recorded as the coldest days for May 22^nd and 23^rd of all time. To add to the cold weather is the weekly occurrence of rain. This week there is 30% chance of rain on Wednesday and a 40% chance of rain on Thursday.

What does this mean for the fruit?
Cold temperatures hold fruit, which slows the growing process. A gradual increase in temperatures signal the tree and the fruit to jumpstart the growing process. If it gets too hot too quickly, the fruit may not reach its’ full size potential, possibly giving us some smaller fruit. Rain can cause cosmetic damage, but does not harm the interior of the product.

We will keep you updated as the weeks go on.

The champagne grape start date is currently set for June 15^th. These tiny, super sweet black corinth berries will now be available in our Bunchkins® label all summer long (please see picture below).

Current and Upcoming Varieties:

Peach – Spring Flame 20 and Spring Flame 21
Nectarines – Zee Fire
White Peach – Spring Snow (first day of picking will be Thursday)
White Nectarine – Early Pearl (estimated start date June 5^th)
Black Plum – Flavorosa (estimated start date June 5^th)
Red Plum – Rubi Rosa (estimated start date June 10^th)
Bunchkins® – Champagne grape (estimated start date June 15^th)